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There will several short presentations at the AST booth. Click here for a full schedule.
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Have some fun and win great prizes. Participate in an AST history social media contest – Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 10:45 AM – 3:00 PM.
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COP meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn about a COP’s initiatives. You are welcome to attend COP meetings, regardless if you are member. For a full schedule, click here.
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Don’t miss the 2018 AST Town Hall, which will be held Monday, June 4, 2018, at 5 pm at the ATC meeting in Seattle. Learn More.
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Voting for the AST Board of Directors and a proposed bylaw amendment is open. If you have not received an email to vote, please check your spam folder. To ensure delivery, please add elections@vote-now.com to your safe sender list. Check out our FAQ page and the candidates personal statements for more information.
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We just published a brand-new Washington Round-Up. Check it out to see what the AST is up to on Capitol Hill.
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We just published a brand-new blog post about the important election process at the AST.
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The AST Trainee and Young Faculty Community of Practice (TYF COP) mentorship event at ATC 2018, “Best practices in a mentor-mentee relationship: Learning from different perspectives”, will be held on Tuesday, June 5th from Noon to 1:00 pm Pacific, in Room 201 of the Washington State Convention Center. Please join us to explore a variety of mentorship approaches, and learn tools for improving mentor-mentee relationships.
This event will lead into the TYF COP annual meeting (held at the same location, from 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm).
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As an AST member, access to free or discounted educational resources are included in your membership. These diverse educational resources offer materials relevant to the transplant professional in every stage of their career – from basic trainee lessons to webinars on specialized topics. Learn more.
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Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is a great way to expand your transplant knowledge. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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AST/AJT Journal Club
"Reproductive Health in Women following Abdominal Organ Transplant"
June 13, 2018 | 1 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
AST/AJT Journal Club
"Mood, Body Image, Fear of Kidney Failure, Life Satisfaction, and Decisional Stability Following Living Kidney Donation: Findings from the KDOC Study"
August 7, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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Management of the Failing Kidney Allograft
After participating in this webinar, the learner will be able to:
- Identify the challenges in managing the kidney transplant patient with a failing allograft.
- Describe the increased risks of death and sepsis for the allograft recipient as they return to dialysis.
- Discuss the options for managing immunosuppression and end stage rejection in the failed allograft.
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The Thoracic and Critical Care COP (TCC COP) will hold a luncheon at ATC that will provide an opportunity for junior faculty to network with established physicians in thoracic transplantation. Attendees will also learn more about how they can be involved with the American Society of Transplantation.
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UNOS
On Thursday, May 10, you should have received an email from the Southeastern Institute of Research (SIR). That email contains a link to a member survey initiated by UNOS and conducted by SIR as an unbiased third party. Please take 12 to 15 minutes from your busy schedule to respond to the questions. SIR will evaluate and compile your responses and will share them with UNOS in aggregate form only to ensure your confidentiality. Your honest feedback will help UNOS improve areas that are most important to you and guide their future work.
If you did not receive a survey, please contact your UNOS Regional Administrator at 804-782-4800.
Transplantation
Living donor kidney transplantation has declined in the United States since 2004, but the relationship between population characteristics and rate of living donation is unknown. The goal of our study was to use data on general population health and socioeconomic status to investigate the association with living donation.
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Transplant International
Our objective was to compare outcomes of DKT to single kidney transplantation (SKT) performed with grafts from expanded criteria donors (ECD) in recipients greater than or equal to 65 years, focusing on surgical complications. All kidney transplantations (KT) performed between 2006 and 2014 in our institution were analyzed. DKT were indicated according to the criteria of the French national Agence de la Biomedecine.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The purpose of the Share 35 allocation policy was to improve liver transplant waitlist mortality, targeting high MELD waitlisted patients. However, policy changes may also have unintended consequences that must be balanced with the primary desired outcome. We performed an interrupted time series assessing the impact of Share 35 on biliary complications in a select national liver transplant population using the Vizient CDB/RM™ database.
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Pediatric Transplantation
Pediatric patients awaiting heart transplant face high mortality rates due to donor organ shortages, including non‐use of marginal donor hearts. We examined national trends in pediatric marginal donor heart use over time. UNOS data were queried for heart donors less than 18 years from 2005 to 2014.
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Clinical Transplantation
Chagas cardiomyopathy (CC) is one of the chronic manifestations of Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) infection and is among the leading reasons for heart transplantation (HT) in Latin America. Chagas disease is also present in areas with large Hispanic communities in the United States. Our objective is to evaluate the outcomes of cardiac allograft recipients with the diagnosis of CC in the United States.
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